Central Govt staffs are participate the strike on December 12

Central Govt staffs are participate the strike on December 12
Railway employees are not joining the strike.
The Confederation of Central Government Employees and Workers (CCGEW)  participate the strike on December 12  demanding fulfilment of its 15-point charter of demands. The major demands include setting up of a seventh Central Pay Commission (CPC), rectification of anomalies, rectification of DA formula, grant of transport allowances for all field persons and revision of tour TA and DA.
The CCGEW alleged that the wage structure recommended by the sixth CPC has totally smashed the existing relativities, which is not acceptable. Another important aspect of pay revision is the merger of DA as Dearness Pay. The fifth CPC had merged 98 per cent DA which was then admissible and recommended that as and when the DA increase of 50 per cent takes place, it should be merged with the pay. But the sixth CPC has undone this achievement and rather snatched away this benefit for reasons which are totally absurd. According to CCGEW Odisha State Branch organising secretary Bruhaspati Samal, while as many as 3 lakh Gramin Dak Sewaks who are directly responsible for effecting postal services door to door have been neglected since pre-Independence era, the Government is quite adamant on offering them the status and pension at par with regular employees The continuous downsizing and outsourcing of the Central Government establishments have posed a threat of privatisation which is strongly opposed by the employees, he added